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...“It seemed easier to bring that vision to light outside of Google.” He would eventually leave in 2021....
...SoftBank’s ‘Berkshire Hathaway’ ambitions slip away When SoftBank first acquired control of Fortress Investment Group for $3.3bn in 2017, the Japanese group’s serial dealmaker-in-chief Masayoshi Son had a vision...
...In 2012, Hinton and his two graduate students at the University of Toronto — including Ilya Sutskever, now a co-founder of OpenAI — made a major breakthrough in the field of computer vision....
...She added: “We believe that Avanza’s mission and vision align very well with our sole focus on disruptive innovation....
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